2026 LATINIDADES: CREATING NEW WORLDS

Experience exciting international theatre, music, and cultural exchange at the 7th Annual International Latinidades Theatre Festival. Featuring artists and companies from across the U.S. and Latin America, the festival becomes a destination for world-class performance, cultural diversity, and community. Join us this September and October at the Latino Cultural Center for innovative theatre, music, dance, and unforgettable shared experiences.

Celebrate the opening of the 7th Annual Latinidades Theatre Festival with a free, all-ages community celebration featuring a participatory procession, movement theatre, dance, live music, and poetry. Featured artists include Barcelona’s Escultores del Aire, Austin’s Las de Allá Dance Collective, Cara Mía Theatre, and Dallas-area artists.

Barcelona’s Los Escultores del Aire brings its internationally recognized approach to physical theatre to Latinidades. Led by artistic director Mai Rojas, the company uses movement and corporeal mime as a universal language, blending theatrical disciplines to tell stories through the expressive possibilities of the body. Their work has been presented across Europe, the United States, Latin America, and beyond.

Two virtuosos of physical theatre reveal humanity’s eternal conflict with bureaucracy—even in the afterlife. When Anastasia dies, she encounters an office where she must complete mandatory procedures before continuing her journey and determining the fate of her soul.

A bilingual musical theatre experience weaving Puerto Rican poetry, memoir, music, and memory. Foundational Nuyorican voices and contemporary poets from Puerto Rico create a living dialogue between the island and its diaspora.

Through dance, visual art, and spoken-word poetry, Alien Number explores Latine identity, immigrant stories, and collective resilience. This work-in-progress is being developed through a Latinidades residency with Mai Rojas and Escultores del Aire.

Punk music and ecstatic movement ignite Orisha narratives and Caribbean folktales, transforming into femme power, anti-colonial rebellion, and mosh-pit liberation. Six archetypes gather to share stories of an anti-colonial femme fatale, a secret society of beautiful femmes, and reunification in the mosh pit.

Returning for its 3rd year, the Latinidades Arts Symposium brings together artists, cultural leaders, educators, and arts organizations to explore how our arts can thrive in times of change. Through conversations on mentorship, funding trends, AI and the arts, and community-building, the Symposium creates space for learning, collaboration, and intergenerational exchange.